December, 2010

• 9 December

  The Arrest of Julian Assange

  Truth in Chains, By CHRIS FLOYD Well, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the world’s most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish – and lawless – desire to destroy him and his organization. It has been, …

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• 9 December

  The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks By Noam Chomsky

  Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in U.S. diplomatic history. In September the last settlement freeze ended, leading the Palestinians to cease direct talks with Israel. Now the Obama administration, desperate to lure Israel into a new freeze and thus …

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• 9 December

  Don’t Shoot Messenger for Revealing Uncomfortable Truths

  WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of …

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• 9 December

  Euro collapse ‘possible’ amid deepening divisions over bail-out

  

    It is feasible that the euro will not survive the current sovereign debt crisis sweeping Europe, one of the Treasury's leading independent forecasters has said. Greek prime minister George Papandreou and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso speaking to the press on Monday Photo: BLOOMBERG Under questioning from MPs on the Treasury Select Committee, Stephen Nickell, a member of the …

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• 9 December

  Leaks Suggest Iran Is Now Winning in the Middle East By Juan Cole

  Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written. Lebanon’s Sunni prime minister, once a virulent critic, quietly made his pilgrimage to the Iranian capital last …

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• 6 December

  WikiLeaks cables claim al-Jazeera changed coverage to suit Qatari foreign policy

  

  WikiLeaks cables claim al-Jazeera changed coverage to suit Qatari foreign policy The Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, offered a deal which was not agreed with Egypt over al-Jazeera, US embassy cables claim. Photograph: Getty Qatar is using the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera as a bargaining chip in foreign policy negotiations by adapting its coverage to suit other …

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• 6 December

  WikiLeaks Server Goes Down, Julian Assange Facing ‘Hundreds Of Death Threats’, By JOHN HEILPRIN

  WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange turned increasingly to Switzerland on Sunday, dodging a barrage of threats online and in the real world to keep access to a trove of U.S. State Department cables under a Swiss Web address. The elusive founder of the website WikiLeaks said he faced "hundreds of death threats." The site hinged on the Swiss Pirate Party's wikileaks.ch …

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